Skate & Bowl

Two weekends ago we went to Jogja for Ice Skating and Bowling. The trip was part of Dina’s “dream” to do those things before she leaves to Batam for good. At first, we weren’t sure if we could do it because it looked so difficult but with little courage from our white friends who have more experienced in it, we then proceeded. Peco and Tiffany didn’t have any problem sliding the ice, for me and Andre we had to re-learn it from when we did roller-skate a while ago.

But for Dina and Pita, it was a tough world!

It didn’t take too long for them though to learn the art of ice-skating thanks to Peco and Tiff. They could finally slide the ice with their skates. For Andre though, he could skate with speed but the problem was he didn’t know how to stop!

After 2.5 hours of experiencing the ice world that mostly occupied by children, we finally rested and moved on to a different play world.
I’ve played once so did the rest of us, except for Pita. After a short briefing from our coach Peco, we came into the battle of bowling.
I found that bowling is more than just throwing a ball into the pins. It took some skills.
There was a machine that counted how many it was interesting to see how we strived to win this game.
Finally the game was over and our coach won the game, the second position was Pita who we thought was her beginner's luck winning. Hehe.

Le Voyage au Jogja avec Ellen

Considering the limited time we have with Ellen, some of us decided to dedicate our weekend to be with her. The first thing we did was a trip to Jogja. Some of us, ten to be exact woke up early in Saturday morning so that we could catch a 7AM bus to Solo. From Solo, we headed to Jogja by a different bus. It was non AC economic bus which was interesting because we were entertained by some of the street musician along the way. Most of them sang with quite interesting voice, but there was one who had a really good voice.





Since Indiana Jones is on theater, some of us could not resist of buying tickets to watch the movie. But for some others, shopping and starbucking were more alluring than watching some guy running around in the jungle.



After shopping, window shopping, eating lunch, walking around Malioboro, talking to the strangers, and shopping again we finally met up at the train station to go back to Solo.



For most of us, it was the first time we took the train to Solo from Jogja. It turned out to be fun although some of us had to stand and sat on the floor because all seats were taken.





We arrived Solo right on time before the last fast bus to Salatiga left. But on our way to the bus station, we experienced a little bit of Solo city tour by becak. It was a lot fun!





The Saturday night is always busy even in the bus that took us back to Salatiga. Even after all seats were taken, the driver kept taking people in until it was so tight that people could not move. We thought the trip to Jogja was short but we felt so tired of the travel. One of us tookthe opportunity to sleep in the bus.